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Friday, 30 April 2010

Wow! I was really surprised with the amount of entries as I thought the criteria was quite hard, :) We have had some gorgeous entries again its been very hard to pick all the winners.

I am really hoping that we can inspire more of the followers to have a go at ARtastics challenges in 2010. You dont have to be the best at scrapbooking or on a Design Team, we just want you have a go, have fun and be inspired by the monthly paintings! We offer a Random Draw prize and Guest DT Raks and 'Picture This " winning prize so...................... lots of prizes for everyone to share :)

We had 15 entries for the month, 4 from (newbies), so thankyou for such a great effort from everyone.

........................so without further ado, here are our April winners

The first being our 'Picture This ' winner........

The honour this month goes to a newbie again!!Aileen Herne with herentry 'Bridge over Water'

Congratulations Aileen!! you have won a $15 Spend at Scrappinbitz

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Picture this Runner UP prize goes

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Lisa Kamphuis with her entry 26 Luntar Rd

Congratulations Lisa!!! you have won a 'Bright Boy kit' from WIOINpictured below

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The winner of the Debs Creation Random Draw Prize, by completing the months challenge and then going to Debs Creations site and answer this Question! Name all the Deb's Creation Design Team members and email your answers to me....

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Deb Clarkwith her entry 'Rest' and by answering correctly the Deb's Creation question!

Congratulations Deb! You have won theKraftin' Kimmie Stamp called Lillith.Pictured Below

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The winner of the Guest DT RAK from Maria Delo(and picked by Maria herself)

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Vanessa Wallerwith her entry 'Was our House'

Congratulations Vanessa!! You have won the Rak from Mariapictured below.

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'Just Calls and Crops' Random Draw prizeComplete the St Nicholas Circle' challenge for the month...THEN Go to the 'Just Calls and Crops' site and become a follower Simple! Then email me to let me know.and the winner is

Tanya Soutar with herentry 'The Long Way to Venus Bay'

Congratulations Tanya!! you have won the RAK of goodiesfrom 'Just Calls and Crops'pictured below

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Melissa with her submission'Sweet Dreams of getting our own Home'

Congratulations Melissa, you have won a RAK of goodiesfor your creative efforts, donated by Shazza

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Could all the winners please email me their details to:shazzaalleyes@hotmail.comso I can get your prizes organised and/or posted out to you.

Again, I would like to thank all the ladies that submitted entries for the month.

I hope you all get a chance to participate in Artastics 1st birthdaycelebrations starting tomorrow :)

Thursday, 29 April 2010

To win this stamp you must enter the 'St Nicholas Circle' challenge for the month AND go to Debs Creations (by clicking on the stamp) and answer this Question! ..........Name all the Deb's Creation Design Team members and email me your answers to shazzaalleyes@hotmail.com

Tuesday, 27 April 2010

In no particular order, here is a blog roll of all the 'Thomas Kinkade - St Nicholas Circle' entries for the month. This helps the Design Team with the judging of entries :) So hang in there, it will be a couple of days before we get back to you with all the winners !!! I will start posting Mays inspiration very soon and all the games and quizes for the 1st Birthday celebrations.

so please make next month very special at ARTastic by joining in :)

I am so happy with the number of entries for April, the criteria this month was particularaly hard and I'm amazed with the quality of the entries, so thanks to those that attempted the challenge you really need a pat on the back :) We had 4 new ladies give this challenge a go, well done!! So, thankyou to everyone who entered this months challenge, we had 15 fantastic entries such a huge effort!! and thankyou so very much for helping to make this challenge site so unique and FANtastic!!

I hope you all enjoyed the 'Thomas Kinkade challenge ' and I am looking forward to you all playing along again in May :) I would love to get over 20 entries next month :)........ especially as its our big birthday bash!!...................................that would really make my day!

Hi Shazza, Sorry it is the 11th hour...thus the picturequality is poor, as it is night, but here ismy entry for the 2nd Artastic challenge Ihave entered into - what an amazing picturefor inspiration! If I had seen this pictureas a little girl, I would have looked &looked for hours, it is one that you can seesomething different in it each time you take a peek.Had fun with inks & flowers & pearls & gotall the criteria for this one....the bridgeis a bit abstract, but I am sure thatdoesn't really matter...cos I really enjoyedthinking & working on this one. Lovely challenges these...thanks Shazza.Cheers,Deb Clark

Hey Deb! Glad you got your entry in, andits gorgeous, I'm happy you enjoyed thechallenge this month. Love all the bitsand pieces in your layout, gorgeousflowers and lace used and what a fantastic photo. thanks for playing along,Great work - shazza

SHAZZA HI!! HERE IS MY ENTRY FOR THE APRIL CHALLENGE- I DID A NO PHOTO LO ABOUT PARIS- ALSO THE TITLE IS PURE CASABLANCA MOVIE (I AM GOING TO VISIT THERE IN MOROCCO IN 3 DAYS FROM NOW)

I used the art inspiration for colors, added this road hand cut sign for Paris, stamped and embossed lots of lamps and the other 3 items are all on this Oriental express vintage add also the green roof is so small that is almost invisible, but it is there...Also Paris France is not my home- but a bit like home as I am back there again and again .

Hope you like it

Irit Shalom

How Lucky are you Irit, to live on that side of the world where you can travel to lots of different countries, like Morocco or Paris. Just love all your bits and pieces, I could look at this layout for ages. Love your title, there is a real vintage feel to this layout, Well done!!- Shazza

Sunday, 25 April 2010

Hi! Shazza Here is my Artastic entry - I was inpired by the colours and did the house my Grandparents built and lived in all their lives..... I also have anold lamp in there Thanks as always - Lisa kamphuis

Hey Lisa, what a gorgeous page for this challenge, i love the pics of your grandparents home being built. love your picket fence and lamp embellie. love your dollie background pp, its beautiful. Well done Lisa :) - Shazza

Here is my entry for this month's challenge. It is of our home and my journaling tells of how happy we've been in this home since leaving NYC to settle here in Florida. Thanks for a beautiful inspiration piece!Best regards,Robin

Hey Robin! Thanks for entering the challenge this month :) What a gorgeous photo of your home. I love how you did your title in blocks, a beautiful bright layout. great work - Shazza

Friday, 23 April 2010

Hi Shazza,This is my LO for the ST Nicholas circle challangeI have used photos of our town Rosebery with my favourite photo of the mountaion covered with snow! I have also made a little house with a green roof thanks Jacqui Miles:)

Great take on the challenge Jacqui, Love the photos you have used, and your little handmade green roofed house just adds a nice touch, your layout wouldn't be complete without your owl :)Fantastic - Shazza

Tuesday, 20 April 2010

Hiya ShazzaGave it a go, am happy with my result.I tried in vain to put all the criteria but unfortunately a gazebo just didn't go with my layout. I even thought of cheating with a genius idea of putting the word "gazebo" from an old dictionary but alas it didn't look right! Anyhoo the top lhs has the lampost (ours in the street) and a bridge, most gorgeous one in Kilcunda east and green roofed house with street sign arrow bottom rhs.It made me really think outside the square - so thanks for the challenge. Cheers - artsy fartsy mumma.

PS: photographing it so the colours came out right was a challenge in itself LOL. x

Hey Tanya! That is the best bridge photo ever, I love the old pylongs. Gorgeous little green roofed house, you did real well with the criteria.... I couldnt get it all on my sub either! thanks for playing along. great job! - Shazza

Sunday, 18 April 2010

Green roof is the house in the photo. The bridge and gazebo are the smaller photos. There is an arrowed signpost on the bottom left under the lamp post.

Thanks again Shazza, -Tarrah McLean

Hi Tarrah, thanks for taking the time to do a layout and join our challenge this month. I really love the photo you used... look at all that greenery around your house :) Love your flower with the metal brad, and the scroll up in the corner really stands out. you managed all the criteria, fantastic!!Well done, you did a great job! - Shazza

Friday, 16 April 2010

Dear Shazza, Attached is my entry for the April Challenge. It was a real challenge to include all of the criteria, but I managed it! - yolanda

Hey Yolanda, you did a great job of the challenge, and added everything perfectly. Love the pic of your home in the UK, it looks smashing!! Beautiful page with the added fence, key and flowers. Great take!! - Shazza

Wednesday, 7 April 2010

Here is Sarahs Journaling:Family Christmas Traditions - Our Christmas Traditions Every Christmas we take out our very Special Countdown Calendar ... We move Little Bear from spot-to-spot as he's looking for Christmas. The TVsprings up a gorgeous Winter Village that looks so nice at night all lit up.

Great Christmas page Sarah. Love the cutouts of the embellies for your criteria, there is so much to look at :) also, love your arrowed sign post pointing to the Christmas Village. This is great - Shazza

Hi Shazza, When I saw the Thomas Kinkade painting I smiled as I had picked up a Thomas Kinkade desk calendar a month ago and love his paintings.Tried to get the colours used in his paintings and the home is the house I spend my teenage years in. Have used all the criteria. Dawn

What a beautiful page, how great to have the calender to work from, he really has some beautiful artwork.I love the mottled look of your background c/s and the dark brown border and tags just look fabulous againt it! Love the black and white pic of the house you grew up in :) You have captured a great memory here.! Well done - Shazza.

Sunday, 4 April 2010

Well I have finally given it a go. Never done this before for inspiration but thank you. I have scrapped our old house where we lived for 10 years, the girls did the majority of their growing up there, the gardens had lovely purple daisies and inside we did actually have minature paintings of Thomas Kinkade's given to me from my American friend (shown in my layout being the gazebo and the bridge).

Now I think I have covered the criteriaI have used the colours from the actual painting as the background (created by me - I used the painting and smudge it in photoshop).Arrowed street sign - being the name of the street our house was in. Lamp - I have added the family name to pose as our outside lightand the green roof is on the photo of our house.

Thanks again for a great challenge.

Love Ness (Vanessa Waller)

Wow! Vanessa this is truely a beautiful entry for the challenge. The background gives it a soft pastel look. Adding your surname to the lamp was a great idea and I loved how you used the miniatures of Thomas Kinkades other paintings and included them in the layout. Well done!!- Shazza

I tried to replicate the mountains and clouds in the top half of my layout.I dabbed paint using a sponge,blending the colours, then embossed the snow line with white ink.(It has a glossy texture in real life) As soon as I saw the painting it reminded me of when we first lived in Goulburn.We woke up one morning to record snowfalls overnight.My husband drove to the top of Rocky Hill and took these panorama shots.The house is one we rented for a few months until we built our own house.I managed to get a signpost,a lantern(from a Christmas card) and a bridge(stamped) on my layout.There was green guttering on the house. - Julene

Hey Julene, your clouds are fantastic, they really look like icy clouds :) Love that you are using different techniques on your pages. It's great your hubby managed to get a pic cause that does not happen very often in the Goulburn. you did well with your embellies, and dont worry i didnt even manage to get a bridge on my submission. Well done Julene and loved you little story! - Shazza

a Lamp, arrowed sign, Bridge across the top of my home, Green roofed rotunda

Aileen

Well done Aileen, this has come together just beautifully, I love your sign post, it just looks fantastic on the page with the flowers around it. Great idea to make a bridge across the top of the pic of your home. Great work - Shazza

Friday, 2 April 2010

Hi Shazza,This entry I decide to use photo from a recent visit to Walhalla, using the brochure from the Walhalla goldfields railway which had a great old bridge that you went over when you rode the train. The history of this place was amazing, old rotundas and old monsonic lodge with a green roof. I also including a lamp and arrow sign post and including an old hat. Thanks Rhonda

Great entry Rhonda, great photo of the old rotunda and green roofed lodge. Love your old lamp, goes with the olde worlde pics. I have been to Walhalla, its a great historical town :) Well done - Shazza

And thanks for having me as your Guest Designer for April, well girls my name is Maria aka Capswife as I’m known on some forums, I’m a military wife and mom to 8 so scrapping is a form of escape in my life, I tend to go into the scrapping zone on too many occasions…….

I was introduced to scrapping via a Creative memories workshop, but then kind of found my way into the real kind of scrapping thru Scrap with V workshops, my gosh I am so thankful that I found this place and went in other directions….

My style is totally shabby in nature I love to bring mixed media into my work, so in the last year or so I really have come into my own style and I’m not afraid to try something new anymore, from vintage papers, to recycled packaging everything that I look at I think hmmm can I use this in my work lol…. Nothing is safe from me anymore….

I’ve been on a few design teams two for challenge blogs and one for an Australian one but I have stepped down and am now focusing on my own things and just creating OTP’s doing international OTP kind of swaps and doing monthly challenges, I have my own little forum which I have created as my home base mainly it’s a place for me to come and share techniques, inspirational people and places and just chat with my friends here is the link if you want to stop by and say hello http://thescrapartistwithin.forummotion.com/index.htm

Now I apologise for all these being thumbnail size, Maria sent them to me via photobucket as I think her camera or computer was playing up and she couldn't email me directly :(If I try and increase the size that just blurrr out of focus. You can view Maria's work on her blog:

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